Magnetic monopoles in high temperature QCD

Understand

We study the density and spatial distribution of thermal Abelian monopoles in the deconfined phase of SU(2) pure gauge theory: they display non-trivial interactions with a well defined continuum limit.

• The Maximal Abelian Gauge (MAG) has been chosen to perform the Abelian projection.
• Questions related to the choice of the Abelian projection, as well as possible directions for future studies, are discussed.